Staff writer Kent Williams, in an arts feature story, declares the Festival of the Lakes "at best, only a modest success." Scaled back from previous years, it drew fewer people, and "only a modest number of its programs were even modestly challenging." Williams cites the absence of a symphony orchestra and Broom Street Theater among the festival's most obvious failings. "What was missing was a sense of true excitement, of chances having been taken, of some of those chances having paid off," he writes. "The problem is vision - artistic vision. ...This year's festival seemed to stand for everything and for nothing at the same time." The Festival of the Lakes is discontinued following its 1990 edition.
Lakes festival all wet
From the Isthmus archives, July 28, 1989